Stove



2 Sheets-Sheet 1. H. R. ROBBINS.

Stove.

No. 23,396. Patented March 29, 1859;

2 Sheets-SheetZ H. R. ROBBINS.

` Stove.

No; 23,396. Patented March .29, 1859.

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UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEroE.

H. R. ROBBINS, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND'.

STOVE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 23,396, dated March 29, 1859; Ressued November 12, 1872, No. 5,145.

To all whom it 'may concern.'

Be it known that I, H. It. RoBBrNs, of Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented a certain new and useful Improve ment in Stoves; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure l, represents a front view of a stove constructed according to my improvement. Fig. 2, is a vertical longitudinal section thereof. Fig. 3, a vertical transverse section of the same, and Fig. 4, a horizontal section taken as denoted by the line 00, in Fig. l.

Similar letters of reference, in each of the several figures indicate corresponding parts.

My improvement relates to that description of stoves in which the body proper of the stove has connected with it, auxiliary or outside air heating, and distributing and radiating appliances, and combines a certain advantageous construction and arrangement of these latter and the body with a back casing designed to adapt the stove in a close, economical and ornamental manner, to fit in the usual hearth or fireplace of a room, where such disposition of the stove is preferred.

'Io enable others, skilled in the art, to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

A, is the fire-pot or chamber of cylindrical form, surmounted by a heat pot B, having a. deflector top and front door a, which latter serves to cover the charging aperture and whereby the fuel may be supplied to the fire pot above the burning mass and without let or hindrance from the mass in a heated state and without risk of the dress of the person feeding in the coal taking lire from an outward blast.

' C, is the lire grate pivoted to rock horizontally when it is desired to clear the grate bars of ashes or dirt obstructing the draft, and D, the ash pan or drawer arranged to slide out in front.

The lire chamber A, which may be suitably lined, is cut away or formed with an opening in front nearly the whole of its depth, and for nearly or about half its circumference, which opening is incased with an ornamental transparent face plate E, of

curvilinear form in its cross run, but set inclined in direction of its depth so as to project considerably more at the bottom than the top in order that the re may be reflected through it in an oblique direction upwardly to meet in a direct and cheerful manner the face of a person sitting or standing in moderate proximity to the stove, and this at different points of observation around the front by reason of the encircling character of said face plate.

The lire chamber with its transparent face plate and heat pot, rests on a hollow pedestal or stand F, of the form shown in Fig. 4, and which serves, by side doors Z), in front, to admit and pass at pleasure air from the room in any desired amount, around the ash-box or pit and up through side columns Gr, G, into the lower passage c, of a horizontally divided upper back encircling chamber H, that, by means of a partition plate (Z, is divided into an upper passage e, and lower passage c. The lower one (c), of these passages is provided at each side in front with a door The smoke pipe I, is carried from the heat pot B, up into the lower passage c, of the upper back encircling chamber H, andthe smoke passed from thence up through an adjacent pipe J, arranged to pass through the upper passage e, of the upper back encircling chamber and to form a communication with the lower passage o, thereof.

In addition to the smoke-pipe I, from the heat pot, the tire chamber A, is surmounted on each side of the heat pot with hea-t or smoke pipes g, g, provided in front with transparent reectors It, lz, and connected at top by a horizontal pipe z, situated over the heat pot and extended to connect on one side with the lower or smoke passage c, of the upper back encircling chamber H, which latter may be iirmly held to the lower portion of the structure by vertical bolts 7c, 7c, passed within the side columns Gr, G.

The main smoke pipe I, may be provided with the usual throttle damper Z, to be operated by rods suitably arranged for the purpose, but it is not on this damper alone, nor yet on it in conjunction with the ash drawer D, that I depend for every necessary regulation of the draft for not only do the pedestal F, with its side doors b, Z, columns G, G, back encircling upper chamber H, with its side door f, and lire chamber vheat pipes g, g,

and air heating and diffusing surface, but

the doors f, and b, Z2, are useful in addition to regulate the draft, and by their combined action, arranged as described, I lind a most beneficial effect in this respect is attained, as by them the draft may be quickly checked when the stove becomes overheated Without producing a too sudden diminution in the temperature of the room by reason of the increased air circulation and reflecting capacity Which is established in SQ checking the draft. Such an arrangement is necessarily productive of a large degree of economy in the consumption of fuel, but I enhance the value of the Whole structure in this respect by encircling the back and top of the stove With a reflecting bonnet or back case K, having too, in its rear, a conduit or pipe m, which serves to conduct cool air from below up into the upper passage e, of the back upper encircling chamber II, from Which When heated the air escapes by perforations n, n, into the room.

A front plate L, of an ornamental character and forming pil'asters and entablature, is iitted on to the back bonnet or case in front and serves to adopt this economical and convenient stove arrangement to fit in the lire place of a room Where it may be placed, by reason of its structure and regulating contrivances, to more advantage than most or all other stoves.

Instead of the plate L, a frontispiece M, similar to that shown in Fig. 5, may be elnployed. The construction of the stove when the plate M is used is substantially the same as described, excepting that the shape of the castings must be adapted to the position and form of the frontispiece M. rIhe object in using the'frontispiecerM, is that the stove may be thrown slightly out of the fire place and an ornamental pot N, for containing Water placed on the same, as represented."

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of the ire chamber A, With its inclined front encircling, transparent face plate E, heat pot B; pedestal F, With its doors b, upper back encirclin chamber I-I, With its doors f, and divide horizontally as described; smoke and heat pipes I and g, g, i, and back case or reecting bonnet K, having a conduit m, arranged to conduct air to the one perforated passage of the upper back encircling chamber I-I, as described; the Whole being arranged for operation substantially as specied.

II. R. ROBBINS. l/Vitnesses:

W. S. KELLER, E. FERD. MAY.

[FIRsT PRINTED 1911 

